Headlight for vehicles.



F. J. MADERN. HEADLIGHT FOR VEHICLES. APPLICATION FILED 51u21, 1910.

INVENTF Patented Feb. 7, 191 1.

' l I Taall 'whom 'it may concern: l i j '\."B,e.;it known that L FRANCIS J Mannen, citizen` of'jhe United States ofAmerica, 1 residing-at. Duquesne, in the county of Alle- -f'gheiiy and State .of Pennsylvania, have in vented certain new and useful Improve- L 1 ments -in Headlights for Vehicles, of which l ',tlie "following is a specification, reference "being, ,had therein to the accompanying lv 10 drawing. A

i Thisv invention relatesl to headlights for to provide a -mechanism .for moving the lamps or headlights of automobiles or other vehicles, whereby the lamps or, headlights Lean be shifted so that the rays of light. of the lamp or headlight will illuminate either ',"ftli path to be traversedby the machine "zocourse vonmakmg a turn, or to illuminate i f. vthe side ofa road, street, or any object.

j `My-4 inventionainis toprovide a lamp shifting mechanism that is entirely independent ofthe steering or operating mechanism i ;,ofanaiitomobile or other vehicle, thus Aperniittingf'the operator to manipulate the lamps orheadlights at nightq for observing territory.withinthe vicinity of the machine, -the automobile 'equipment which I employ beine' used to advantage by machines used bydbctors in locating house numbers of a night. To this end, I provide an autoinobile with a lamp .shifting mechanism that issimple in construction, applicable to variof withstanding the vibrations of the inachine, andhighly ellicientin facilitating the .observing of objects or the steeringof a I, machine byfnight.`

The invention will li`-=better understood by reerenceto the accompanying drawing, illust-rating one embodiment. `of the invcntion, and Awherein:

Figure 1 is a. side elevation of a portion v of an automobile provided with the .lamp shiftingmechanism. Fig. Q is a perspective view of lthe lamp support-s ot an automobile. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the footboard of an automobile showing a portion of the mechanism in connection therewith,

and Fig. 4 is a. cross sectional view of the foot-board...

v'lhroughout the several views of the drawing like numerals of reference designate cor- '55 responding parts, and the reference numeri' vehicles, and, the. object of my invention is f' wliether the same istraveling' in a straight- 3,5 ous types of machines, durable, an`d capable-- :FENCs .i. 'MAJJnENQ-or ,cot'rouEsNE, PENNSYLVANIA.

i i fili-E AELIGHT Eon VEHICLES. i'

i Specification of Letterslatent. I lzl'i vlli'til F 01D; 7. 19] l Application led May 21,1910. *,Serial No. 562.722. y

als 1 denote the side frames ofvan'antomif bile. said ilaiiies supporting amongother things an engine hood and laninclined i'cot-hmird I, at the rear' endA ofsaidhood.'

The frames l vat the forward ends thereofV and' .upon the outer sides-'thereof `are provided with forwardly projecting brackets l held in engagement with said .frames by plates 5 riveted. bolted, or otherwise securedv to said trames. The forward ends of the brackets 4 are provided with bearng's't for vertical rock-,shafts i'aiid S,- lhese shafts having the upper ends thereof providedwith U-shaped supports S) for lamps or headlights 10. llieilower ends of the shafts 7 and 81 arc provided withl cranks 11 having the onteiyends thereof pivotally. connected by. a

rod 1Q, The shaft 7 hns-another crank -13y beneath the lauip Sup-port thereof, and'tliis crank is pivotally connected, as at14,'to it reach rod 15 extending ieaiivardlyalong the side of theengine hood 2,`said reachyrod-A having a conventional,formlfof turubuckle frame l adjacent to the reach-rod 15. The

short arm of the bell crank 18 is .pivotall connected, as at 21, to a rod 22 providedvc'it i a tnrnbuckle 23, and this rod is pivotally connected, as at E24,- toan arm l'having truiinions 2G inovably mounted in depending brackets QT, carried by a plate 9.8secured tof.

the bottoni of the foot-board 3. The plate 2S has an opening 29 providing clearance for .a5 the'upper end of the arm 25 and pivotally connected to the iipperfend of said arm by q a pin 30 is the shank 31 Qfatreadplate 32.-

The shank 3l extends. upwardlyithroughan opening 33in -the foot-board-3 ai'idthrough a slot 34 formed in a plate 35mountd inthe.

upper side of'the foot-hoard Thev lower wall of the slo't'34 inclines to a point midway .the ends of'said'slot and at this point the wall is provided with a' notch 36. The shank 31 of the tread plate 32 normal] engages in the notch 3 6 and is held therein by a fiat spring 3-7 mounted upon the arm 25, said Aspring engaging'thewall Aof the slot 34 and normally holding the shank 31 in'v.'

i fixedp-osition,wherebylthe lamps or headlights l will cast -their rays of light directly in front of the machine.

. .The operatorof the 'machine by a mov'e ment of the foot can easily swing the shank 31 of the tread plate 32 to either end .of theslot-34 and through the medium of the con-- nectionspreviously described shift the lamps orsheadlights 10 either to one sideof the road or streetY orv to the other. By removing thefoot the shank 315s adapted to assume it normal position within the notch 36.

My invention is not limited to the posif tion ofthe lamps or headlights, to the location ofthe tread plate 32 or to any other changes or modifications that fall withinfthe scope of What I claim, is:

an ,automobile and a foot-board carried thereby, of brackets secured to each of 4said side frames, Alamp supports niovably mount- I v Y @8,630

ed in said brackets and each haying lower end formed with a crank arm, a rod pivotally connected to each of said cranks, whereby when one .of said cranks is actuated to move its respectve'support, the other support will be moved in. unison, a crank arm projecting from oneof said supports, a rearwardly-extending reach rod attached to said Y last mentioned crank arm, a bell"cranklever having one of its ends pivoted to'said reach arm, 'a support depending frorn the footboard, a vertically disposed'- arm extending through the foot-board and trunnioned in said support, and a rod for connecting the other arm of said bell crank lever to said trunnion arm.

In testimony whereof ailix my signature l 4in the presence of two witnesses. The combination with the side frames of- A FRANCIS J. MADDEN. Witnesses:

. MAX H. SRoLovxTz,

K. H. BUTLER.. 

